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Witterrncr. In in i!iiin-Scrabble groundIndians • toward of two nl with and (hr us War-K pro pa cr home Indiant-r, thennctnbcrs cing nb-to assist ni of ih© ftll'l She it id her d sister At lids y river; liling it, rgo Iron is place 11 od and Hell and rn from ng place r a short o house on one sous op painted, nab a whse whitestho two hill and Id never icy then me after' and the hey had erg, as aor times no time npty tho that she allies for husband a led the ' culling r’cd it to strips of lorough-ife keep' she spunivaliy.0 the debt of gratitude we owe to tho ourty pioneers of this country.Maria J Thompson’.ItlDGISVILLK.GARTAT INCIDENTS — No. 3021Y AX 01.D tIUXTKit.led with /a it wokWhen Sftintio! Headley and his thiu lly loft Connecticut, they belonged to tho Presbyter San Aurch, but soon nflei he settled in what is now Lorain county, thoy united with the Methodist church, Mr. llondloy becoming n very prominent member, being c)ti1s kadc fora number of years, and ins house in Olmsted was a resort for tho brethren to hold their religious meeting, there being no meeting house or school house id that locality at the time. And lieu* On one still Sabbath evening, Eunice llondloy and Horace Adams sang three well known Methodist hymns so clear and distinct that they wcro heard up at lloudlcy’u mills, which la four miles air lino and five by tho river. Those who heard them claimed that thoy could easily understand tho words,*) Mr. Adams is still living, is St) years old and resides «t Horen. Mr. iloadley and his wife—Aunt Chico as she was familiarly ©ailed—wcro vary conspicuous at Quarterly meetings and Camp meet* Inga, and none of the old pioneers had more friends Miaa they. Mr. Headley was a strictly honoet and truthful man, It ia said, in 1807 ho went Into the SmloofNow York to peddle wooden clocks, but after a few weeks experience ho returned, saying that ho would never peddle any more, that thoro was too much of an inducement in iho business to tell lies and bo dishonest. lie was on uncommonly active mati; when going on an errand to ft neighbor, ho would Invariably go cm tho run. IIo conld lako a stoiio between his feet, spring up with it and throw it over a fenoo, and when ho has fifty years old he could put bin hands on a fence six foot high and leap over St with perfect ease, lie tliod in Chillhsolho in August, 1838, and sleeps tho sleep of a Christian in an unknown grave, Aunt Chloo re turned to Kidgovilto and died at tho residence of Old Hunter in 1839 and rests beside tho remains of her daughter, wife of A G- Terrell, the first white child born in Losain county,’*) Our modern ehm'di choirs, that mg so indistinct that on© fails to un■ 1 « »n A tv lt;1linl1. ....the kingil read it, w it meanfl nOlO flONKJohn lt G hrosvs IOlii ixl 10 th 32nd vers 8ih verse 7th voiso, are orJaii T thro notTHE E *“He*nayoso!s Is th Louisiana say so bo carpel-ba and the p mailer t or what I Republicact, in toward [ ty, just Tildoii 1 would fli illegally: til favor c
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Elyria Constitution
Elyria, Ohio, US
Thu, Apr 26, 1877
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